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December 20, 2014

This terrorist attack is extraordinarily well-timed for the Conservatives, who were on the brink of meltdown hours before the attack took place. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but there's a real stink surrounding this whole election. There's no one to vote for. Liberal Democrats? Besides a reasonable tax increase (penny on the pound) I don't see them differing all that much from the incumbents. Labour wants to nationalise everything... big mistake. Sod it all. It's all nonsensical.

I hate money. I also hate people who say "there are more important things in life" — I've yet to hear this from a person struggling financially. I've met homeless bums who say this, but there was an irony in their inflection and gaze that made it quite clear that money is of paramount importance. Typically it's some rich arsehole who says that money is not so important because they have to think about it.

I think people mean there's more important pursuits than just trying to get richer. Money is a tool that can accomplish a lot which is why people like it. I wish I were crazy rich I'd pour millions into Linux+Mozilla and I'd also start an ISP that does end-to-end encryption. But here the goal is securing the right to privacy rather than trying to make money from the ISP -- heck I'd probably run it at a loss if I had money to throw away just so I can get more people on board. For the record, I make enough to live comfortably without being in any real debt (I'm currently paying off a credit card from my visit to Texas last year).

Big protest against Trump in Leeds today. Made it quite difficult to return to my home from the city. I wish these unemployed lefties would confine their childish rambling sessions to weekends. All of these peaceful protests achieve nothing but disruption to pragmatists. I don't understand why a 90 day hiatus to travel has provoked this kind of reaction, but sexually abusing women, torturing/kidnapping people and poor economic policy are all okay. Was the left so arrogant? Or did they realise their redundance and let the shit hit the fan so as to have a purpose?

Well, I hope all the people that have voted for Clinton (I assume those protesters mainly have) are not as emotive as the once mainstream medias are delightfully showing on their "news"... Because if it is, good luck trying to have a constructive debate, it is nearly impossible like that. I'm maybe naïve to think there isn't as much division between the American people but those who are protesting are giving a very poor image of themselves, not because they are protesting but because they do so without real arguments. They could, but all we see are tantrums... And it's worse when some of them riot. Hope the situation will calm down.

One day to the Brexit vote. The level of spin and indoctrination in both stay and leave has been utterly crazy. I fear for the UK, regardless of how the senseless public will vote. Democracy is a bad joke.

Isn't democracy just mob rule to an extent? Still, I'm not sure a better system exists. It seems some leave voters are doing it because they don't like immigration but this isn't a referendum on immigration so I suspect they won't be happy even if they get their way. So we could be worse off financially and still have a pissed off racist minority.

Interesting, I wonder how it runs Android apps. As far as I know, most (all? none?) are compiled just for ARM. Does Chrome OS emulate Android on ARM? I can't imagine that'll be remotely fast (which perhaps explains why it can't run on some chrome books)